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America’s own Leonardo. A Renaissance Man.

Rich Zubaty (1948-) is an author, artist, anti-war activist, podcaster, father, carpenter, world traveler, fisherman, free lance monk and unreconstructed beatnik. Born in Chicago, he has lived in Europe, Asia, India, Australia, the South Pacific, North and South America, painting, writing, filming, podcasting, trading work for food and shelter, and recording how people live.

Rich was dubbed a "Third World Millet" by the Puffin Foundation, which gave him a grant to continue painting his series of large oils called "Disappearing Lifestyles". This is Rich’s attempt to honor those men and women still living thousand-year-old, sustainable lifestyles — farming, fishing, weaving — who are threatened with extermination by the global corporate colossus.

Rich Zubaty has written four books representing 15 years of studying men’s issues, corporate abuses of power, and male-flavored spirituality. He was educated at the University of Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, and attended film school in Paris, France. He lived one year each, as a novice, in Buddhist and Benedictine monasteries, in Thailand, India and Florida. He has appeared on over 200 radio shows and a dozen TV shows advocating his pro-male, anti-corporate opinions. When George Bush invaded Iraq he created “The Rude Guy Podcast” to stir up the rest of the world to protest this violation of U.S. and international law. And the podcast evolved into a show about ideas. Ideas about WHAT our government is SUPPOSED to be doing, and HOW it’s supposed to be doing it. Ideas about capitalism and art and socialism and quantum science and God.

America’s own Leonardo. A Renaissance Man.

And when he can´t stand bending over the easel any more he goes fishing.